Jesse Custer
Jesse Custer is the star of the DC/Vertigo Preacher comic books, which have been adapted for television, but it would be really cool to see him in a movie, as well.
The television series is set to star Dominic Cooper in the lead role, and Seth Rogen helping with development. It looks like an extremely interesting project – but a movie with an R rating would surely be absolutely awesome.
The character’s schtick is that he has been magically imbued with “the word of God”, which means that anyone will do anything he says, without question or argument. A prime example of this, and a fairly obvious reason for an R rating is a scene that appeared in one of the comic books, in which Custer tells a man to “go f**k himself” – which the man subsequently does, in a highly grotesque fashion.
It would certainly be a type of comic book movie that has never been seen before, but it would most certainly have an audience – especially given the upcoming television series.
